Republicans: The Bomb That Was a Bomb

Only a few months ago it seemed to many
Republicans that New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller was virtually
certain to get the Republican presidential nomination in 1964. But
after his remarriage, the polls showed a steep and swift decline in his
popularity. Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater suddenly became the front
runner, and by an impressively wide margin. Governor Rockefeller had to
do something, and last week he did.

He issued a strenuous attack on what he called "radical right" elements
in the Republican Party. While he avoided calling Barry Goldwater any
names, or even naming him, Republican politicians across the...